{"id":1988,"date":"2025-04-18T18:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/im-reading-a-poetry-book-backwards\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T18:45:11","slug":"im-reading-a-poetry-book-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/im-reading-a-poetry-book-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Reading a Poetry Book Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m reading a poetry book beginning at the<br>\nend of it. but, trust me, I\u2019m not a half wit.<\/p>\n<p>What! You say that sounds odd. I have to agree,<br>\ntrying to be an objective critic of me.<\/p>\n<p>But hear me out and you might see the method<br>\nin my oddness is far from insanity.<\/p>\n<p>I began by reading the book from the start,<br>\nbut felt the poems had no heart.<\/p>\n<p>So to in an attempt to put my dislike in the past,<br>\nI thought maybe the best were saved for last.<\/p>\n<p>Now maybe that was crazy and my thinking was<br>\nhazy.<\/p>\n<p>But like a crescendo, and I write this with no<br>\ninnuendo, the poems at the ending were<br>\nbetter, more heartrending and mind bending.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m reading a poetry book beginning at the end of it. but, trust me, I\u2019m not a half wit. What! You say that sounds odd. I have to agree, trying to be an objective critic of me. But hear me out and you might see the method in my oddness is far from insanity. I&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/im-reading-a-poetry-book-backwards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}